My oppression is not yours. I repeat, my oppression experience is not yours. My experiences are neither better nor worse than yours. Don’t treat it as such, don’t treat it as the plague, but also don’t treat it as an excuse. Being oppressed isn’t something I asked for in life, but it also isn’t an excuse for me or anyone else to be a jerk. There will never not be a time where anything is unfair. In my honest opinion, it’s wrong to play the victim game when it comes to oppression. Not everything unfair in life is from being oppressed. The majority of the time, it just has to do with location, situation on hand and who’s involved.

A lot of individuals like to play the victim card, and make everything they see personal to them. Not everything is out there to hurt them personally on purpose. Sometimes it can be someone else’s norm or cultural lifestyle. It has nothing to do with you, you just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time or in this case, the wrong situation. You have to be out there with an open mind and accept the fact that not everyone can help themselves. Not everyone has the same privilege to see what they do is wrong, uneducated or hurtful for others. It isn’t right to bash someone because they’re ignorant on certain things. Sometimes that ignorance isn’t a choice, it just so happened to be the way someone was raised and educated on.

Humans aren’t perfect, and their upbringing is one of those. You have to realize that you can’t change how the whole world thinks, but with time, patience and education, you can start small and work your way up to more and more people. Also be aware that some people may not get it right away, because of how they think is already set in stone usually by a certain age. Given the chance, people do change their minds and views about things over time. With the abundance of humans on this earth, it is hard to find a place where everything an individual enjoys isn’t offensive to someone else. Someone out there will always be offended by what you like, do, say and think. Just try to be the bigger person and come to understand why they think that way or help educate them to look at it in a different light.

Even as a last resort, just look the other way keep moving forward with your life. Just as long as it isn’t physically hurting your life, or financially straining you, it might just be best to deal with the problem with little effort or take it as a lesson to help teach. Again, no one chooses to be oppressed, but don’t choose it yourself when it’s not something to worry greatly about. You can see the oppression as a motivation to be better for yourself, to prove them wrong. Beat the oppression by living your life as it would be without society’s oppression on you.

Don’t take everything so personally.

Don’t see everything in life that is unfair as oppression.

Don’t undermine someone’s oppression experience that they didn’t choose.

Don’t play the victim card, and see it with an open mind instead.

Be that change.

Be that person who educates.

Be the bigger person.

Be the one to help open someone else’s world.

Be mindful.